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@gilbert Straight from the bain Associate training on business definition

This is what it looks like when I cosplay a management consultant.

@gilbert A brand that defined my childhood and my friends. Nintendo power is the greatest magazine of the 80s.

I had no idea this happened: 1982: video game boom, $3.2B market 📈 1983: crash 97% to $100m by 1985 📉 1985: Nintendo releases NES at the bottom 1990: Nintendo takes 95% of video game market and does $2B in revenue (20x entire market 5 years earlier!!) acquired.fm/episodes/ninte…

@sama Mimetic desire of those that came before you who created lasting things

the desire to create something that lasts a long time is so strong; i wonder why

@gilbert Excited!

Live! acquired.fm/episodes/the-n…

So pumped for the first @AcquiredFM episode of the year dropping tomorrow. Recorded 8 hours in studio. Condensed it down to the best 4. Most effort ever spent in the edit but I think it'll be worth it.

@patrick_oshag 2022? IRS crypto division.

What’s THAT one? Likely most interesting one on this plot

@sama That with a long enough time horizon, karma permeates the business world. The more value you create, the more value you receive in return.

haven’t seen this as a twitter thread, so: what true thing do you believe that few people agree with you on?

@chrisyeh And that Disney can amortize character IP across a much more sophisticated Monetization model. Disney+ is a tactic, not the strategy.

Disney+ is winning because it understands a simple fact: If you have at least one hit show releasing new episodes every week, your subscribers will be happy to pay. thestreet.com/investing/netf…

@andrewchen Could also imagine that school consolidation could mean that some responsibilities are collected in administrative staff.

@andrewchen IT staff?

Can anyone explain why this is happening? I assume there’s a rational reason…

@gilbert That’s what I was trying to get at. If you understood how value scales with selection in books, you’d conclude that the internet was not going to be a fad and that other buying considerations would be overpowered.

@gilbert Didn’t understand the scale value curve.

Amazing that the initial key insight for Borders Books was the same as for Amazon. Just... an order of magnitude smaller :)

@brandonjcarl @DavidSacks @elonmusk Someone finally using the LLN correctly. Not that bigger companies slow their growth. #mathsnob

@DavidSacks @elonmusk That’s not right David. You can test the error with a binomial distribution. This is the Law of Large Numbers. Twitter samples 9,000 per quarter or 36,000 per year. At 5% sampled mean the standard error is sqrt(5% x 95%/36K) = 0.36%. Twitter is right.

Twitter is toast.

@Suhail Follow the duct tape

Free algorithm to discover new startup ideas: take any high quality thing people do today that requires taste/craftsmanship/skill and figure out how to make it so common people can achieve it. Example: well designed, interactive, highly polished OpenAI style blog posts.

@djrosent @satyanadella @LinkedIn @Minecraft @github @ZeniMax_Online @NuanceInc The journey continues!

@profgalloway The stability of the trajectories is amazing

"The unluckiest generation in history" (millennials) washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…

@triketora Ask them about their thoughts on great teams and see if they naturally bring it up. Or ask them what they’re most proud of and see how diversity is mentioned. Or ask them to reflect on a deep DEI question and see how deep they can go.

does anyone have good interview questions or ways to suss out whether a candidate really cares about dei, vs just says the right things?

@realdennishong @MadThunderdome With what likelihood do you think?

@paulg When I was a consultant we plotted clients on sharp/not X mean/nice. Not sharp/mean was always terrible.

Demanding and incapable is a bad combination.

@marklobosco Yikes. Like changing your name on zoom to “connecting…”

This can’t end well.

@naval The ultimate system of government with respect to a group of people, and which is recognized and interacted with by other systems of government representing other peoples. Borders are a means of governing constituents and interacting with other peoples.

Can you define the word “country” without using the concept of a border?